Daysville, Florida
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Gainesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32608. It stands on Hogtown Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gainesville East quadrangle.
Then and now
1890 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1890 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1890 USGS Arredondo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1892 USGS Arredondo quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Arredondo quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Gainesville East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Gainesville East quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
126 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Daysville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 227 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 7 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 28 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 945 |
| 21 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 2005-08-0502 /ALACHUA |
| 16 August 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 August 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 August 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 July 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 21,519 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 21,519 specimens collected within 10 miles of Daysville between 1806 and 1975: 9,164 Animalia, 9,033 Fungi, 1,876 Protozoa, 1,196 Plantae, 141 Chromista, 107 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A B GROBMAN, A CARR and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Xylocopa micans Lepeletier, 1841 | 1847 | not recorded | Gainesville |
![]() | Astragalus L. | 1876 | Abraham P. Garber | |
![]() | Corallorrhiza Gagnebin | 1876 | Abraham P. Garber | |
![]() | Ditrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe | 1806 | C. E. Faxon | |
![]() | Canthon pilularius (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1822 | F. W. Walker | Gainesville |
![]() | Ilex vomitoria Aiton | 1826 | A. P. Garber | |
![]() | Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood | 1842 | F Engel | |
![]() | Cryptotis parva (Say, 1823) | 1860 | A. Arata | Gainesville, 6 mi. NW |
![]() | Geomys pinetis Rafinesque, 1817 | 1860 | James Layne | Gainesville |
![]() | Myotis Kaup, 1829 | 1860 | Harley B. Sherman | Gainesville |
![]() | Myotis austroriparius (Rhoads, 1897) | 1860 | unknown | Gainesville, 10 mi. W |
![]() | Podomys floridanus (Chapman, 1889) | 1860 | James Layne | Gainesville, 8 mi NW |
All 21,519 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Daysville: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hole No 118 Clay Prospect | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alachua II (historical) | 0.8 miles | 19 | |
| Robinswood | 0.9 miles | 19 | |
| Idylwild | 1.3 miles | 19 | |
| South Idylwild | 1.6 miles | 19 | |
| Riceland | 1.7 miles | 19 | |
| Malore Gardens | 2.5 miles | 19 | |
| Beville Heights | 2.5 miles | 23 | |
| Arredondo | 2.6 miles | 19 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 281352. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.




















